Bodies in dissent : spectacular performances of race and freedom, 1850-1910 /

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Highlighting the connections between performance & construction of racial identities, this work argues that from the mid 19th century to the early 20th, black transatlantic entertainers often transformed the alienating conditions of social & political marginalisation into modes of self-actua...

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Détails bibliographiques
Cote:Libro Electrónico
Auteur principal: Brooks, Daphne (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Durham : Duke University Press, 2006
Sujets:
Brown, Henry Box, > 1816-
Hopkins, Pauline E. > (Pauline Elizabeth) > Criticism and interpretation.
Hopkins, Pauline E. > (Pauline Elizabeth) > Critique et interprétation.
Brown, Henry Box, > 1815 or 1816-
Hopkins, Pauline E. > (Pauline Elizabeth)
Hopkins, Pauline E. > 1859-1930
Fürstliches Schauspielhaus > Bad Pyrmont
Universidad Sergio Arboleda
1800-1999
African Americans in the performing arts.
African American theater > History > 19th century.
African American theater > History > 20th century.
Noirs américains dans les arts du spectacle.
Théâtre noir américain > Histoire > 19e siècle.
Théâtre noir américain > Histoire > 20e siècle.
PERFORMING ARTS > Reference.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.
African American theater.
Schwarze
Ethnische Beziehungen
Theater
Menselijk lichaam.
Voorstellingen (uitvoerende kunsten)
Verenigde Staten.
Schwarze.
USA.
afroamerikansk
teater
fargede
skuespillere
teatersosiologi
Amerika
Forente
stater
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • Our bodies, our/selves: racial phantasmagoria and cultural struggle
  • The escape artist: Henry Box Brown, black abolitionist performance, and moving panoramas of slavery
  • The deeds done in my body: performance, black(ened) women, and Adah Isaacs Menken in the racial imaginary
  • Alien/nation: re-imagining the black body (politic) in Williams and Walker's In Dahomey
  • Divas and diasporic consciousness: song, dance, and new negro womanhood in the veil
  • Epilogue: theater, black women, and change

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